Mrs. Rashmi Bansal

About

To carry forward the motive of India “Justice for all”, CPWD-OWA has added a new chapter to its welfare wing with a single objective: to provide legal assistance, help, and advice to people, otherwise unable to afford legal representation and access to the court system.

"Legal Service Clinic” acts on a pro bono basis and the main thrust is on providing the basic legal services like legal advice, assistance in drafting of notices, replies, applications, petitions etc. The lawyers operating the legal aid clinic also attempt to resolve the disputes of the people in the locality, preventing the disputes from maturing into litigation.

The initiative as a welfare provision was taken in 2016 under the guidance and chair of Mrs Lata Garg, the then president of CPWD-OWA, and Rashmi Bansal, secretary Welfare, has volunteered for the concept and establishment of this Legal Help Clinic.

Legal Help Clinic is governed by a separate unit under the president-ship of Mrs Priti Sinha , President CPWD-OWA, Vice- President – Rashmi Bansal.

Aim and Objectives

• To provide legal help and advice to the poor, marginalised and weaker sections of the society, especially to the people associated with CPWD, CPWD- OWA, its employees, the staff, workers, and targeting particularly women and children.
• To spread legal awareness among the people.
• To provide an inexpensive local machinery for rendering legal services and help of basic nature like legal advice, drafting of petitions, notices, replies, applications and other documents of legal importance.
• To help the people to get their issues settled with the government offices and for interacting with the officials for solving their problems.
• To co-ordinate with para legal volunteers to work in the Legal Help Clinics for assisting the lawyer and the seekers of Clinic.
• To help low and moderate-income people find free legal aid programs in their communities, answers to questions about their legal rights, court information, and links to social service agencies.
• To encourage people to remain vigilant about their rights and not to tolerate anything illegal.
• To organise camps at different construction and crèche sites of CPWD, to spread the legal awareness and to help them if they need any legal assistance.
• To co-ordinate with eminent people like judges, higher officials from law departments, women commission, police department, academicians, and leading advocates to address the people on different legal aspects.

Future Plans

• To employ lawyers, legal workers, paralegals and administrative staff to provide information, legal advice and representation.
• To increase access to justice for the millions of poor people who face legal problems every year without help from a lawyer.
• To support the innovative and effective use of technology by the non-profit legal sector.
• To increase participation by volunteers.
• To facilitate collaborations among non-profit legal organizations and advocates working on similar issues or in the same region.
• The Clinic will extend help in diverse areas such as environmental protection, clean and safe working place, mediation process, and such other things.
• The clinic on behalf of CPWD-OWA will help in initiating legal action or assist in all legal proceedings in case of need arise.